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When I joined an 8-person backend team supporting a user-facing API, we had ~12% failed deploys and an average rollback time of 45 minutes. I led a two-month effort to standardize CI/CD and observability: we added pre-commit hooks, enforced linting and unit-test gates in GitHub Actions, introduced a canary deployment step with automated health checks, and wired up Prometheus + Grafana alerts for error rate and latency. I also ran workshops to improve code reviews and established a lightweight checklist. Within one quarter failed deploys dropped to ~1%, rollback time fell to under 7 minutes, and deployment frequency increased 3x. The improved telemetry also cut incident debug time by about 50%.
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